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NBC, Yahoo! Sites Soar With Olympics
NEW YORK American sports fans are turning to the Web to follow the 2008 Summer Olympics in droves, setting as many records as Olympic swimmers over the first four days of the Beijing Games, according to figures compiled by Nielsen Online and NBC Universal.
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Brian Duensing blogs from Beijing
August 12, 2008 It has been a couple days since the Opening Ceremonies here and there isn't that much to report. We had another game against China but we just weren't that into it. I can definitely tell we are just ready to start playing. All this practicing and what not is getting old.
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Researcher lowers projections for online video ads
Wed, Aug 13, 2008 (2:57 p.m.) Research company eMarketer is sharply reducing its spending projections for online video advertising, saying the market hasn't been as strong as the firm had previously estimated.
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Daily Debrief: Online attack, retaliation in Russia-Georgia conflict
In Wednesday's edition of the Daily Debrief, CNET's Kara Tsuboi and Robert Vamosi discuss the latest exchange of cyberattacks between warring countries Russia and Georgia.
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Researcher lowers projections for online video ads
Research company eMarketer is sharply reducing its spending projections for online video advertising, saying the market hasn't been as strong as the firm had previously estimated. Estimates that eMarketer expects to release Thursday show U.S. spending for online video advertising at $505 million in 2008, down from the $1.35 billion figure the firm circulated earlier. EMarketer still expects the ...
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Copper thieves cripple local business
"We were totally down, we had no lights, no air, no computers, no phones, we were completely at a standstill," said West, "We were crippled totally."
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white papers
The VAR guy opened up a discussion about the success, or lack thereof, of Canonical's reseller program with Ubuntu. Symantec Backup Exec 12 and Backup Exec System Recovery 8 deliver industry leading Windows data protection and system recovery.
IT World |
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Pentagon puts hold on USAF cyber effort
Associated Press - August 13, 2008 6:04 PM ET WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon this week delayed and may kill the Air Force's nascent Cyberspace Command.
KPLC Lake Charles |
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Family Seeks Teen Missing For Weeks
A teenager is missing for three weeks, and his family believes an online game could hold the clue to his disappearance.
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Researcher lowers projections for online video ads
Research company eMarketer is sharply reducing its spending projections for online video advertising, saying the market hasn't been as strong as the firm had previously estimated.
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EBay in talks to buy minority stake in Gmarket
The online auction company eBay Inc. said Wednesday it is in talks to buy a minority stake in the South Korean online marketplace operator Gmarket.
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Legislative committee hears briefing on Oregon data center problems
SALEM (AP) — Oregon lawmakers who listened to reports of planning flaws in the state’s $64 million computer center say the takeaway is a need to increase upfront oversight of future technology projects.
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Pentagon delays Air Force's cyber effort
The Pentagon this week delayed and may kill the Air Force's nascent Cyberspace Command, according to a memo obtained by The Associated Press. This comes as Russia used a major computer network attack to begin its assault on Georgia.
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Fire damages building at Apple’s campus in Cupertino
A fire burned part of a two-story building on Apple Inc.’s campus in Cupertino on Tuesday night. (AAPL)
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John McCain speaks on economy, Georgia at Townsend Hotel
Facing a forest of camera tripods and waves of laptop screens, Sen. John McCain recognized that "these are lousy times in Michigan" and voiced support for the embattled people of the Republic of Georgia at a press conference held at 4 p.m. in the Townsend Hotel in downtown Birmingham.
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Pronto! 2.2 syncs with iPhone
CommuniGate Systems has launched Pronto! 2.2, the latest version if its unified communications user interface framework. Pronto! is built with Adobe Flex 3, deployed in the browser with Adobe Flash Player, and to the desktop with Adobe AIR. Pronto offers a framework to deliver value added services for rich media communications and advanced collabo...
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Final Glance: Computers companies
Apple Inc rose $2.57 or 1.5 percent, to $179.30. Dell Inc fell $.20 or .8 percent, to $25.13.
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15 arrested in Lynnwood Internet escort sting
LYNNWOOD – Police said they arrested 15 people Friday night in a Craigslist escort sting at a Lynnwood hotel. Lynnwood police working with Everett police and Immigration Customs Enforcement arrested 10 women, ages 17-47, for investigation of prostitution.
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Patent suit targets company being acquired by Microsoft
On the surface, the latest patent lawsuit to hit the court systems looks like many of the others: allegations of infringement, ongoing unauthorized use and so on. But there's a little bit of a twist to this one. DATallegro, the company that reportedly is doing such infringing, is in the...
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EXpresso to Expand Online Access to Office Files
A California-based startup is giving business users a way to view and share Web-based versions of Office documents through its...
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Emtec Global Services (EGS) Acquires eBAS and Aveeva
Emtec, Inc. announced today that it has acquired through its subsidiary, Emtec Global Services LLC, all of the outstanding stock of eBusiness Applications Solutions, Inc. and Aveeva, Inc. headquartered in Fremont, CA, and their Indian subsidiary Aviance Software India Private Limited , headquartered in Bangalore, India.
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Scientists say oil exploration threatens Amazon
Oil exploration in the Amazon rain forest represents the latest, perhaps greatest, threat to preserving what remains of the world's largest remaining tropical wilderness, scientists said Wednesday. Scientists from Duke University said a new study revealed a Texas-size chunk of rain forest stretching across Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and western Brazil has been approved for petroleum ...
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Final Glance: Internet companies
Akamai Technologies fell $.20 or .9 percent, to $22.72. Amazon fell $.56 or .6 percent, to $86.69.
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Suspect in stolen laptop case nabbed by NBI agents
MANILA, Philippines – A man who tried to sell on the Internet a laptop that had been stolen from a lawyer was arrested by the National Bureau of Investigation in an entrapment operation on Tuesday.
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In Georgia, a Parallel War Rages Online
Cyberattacks took down Georgian websites even before the bombs fell, but damage so far is short term.
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